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Nov 9, 2020 Dan Vogel
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In Volume Five: INTERVIEWS WITH BOOK OF MORMON WITNESS DAVID WHITMER, CONDUCTED BY: Joseph F. Smith & Orson Pratt William H. Kelley & George A. Blakeslee George Q. Cannon Edmund C. Briggs & Rudolph Etzenhouser Joseph Smith III Zenas H. Gurley James Henry Moyle Thomas W. Smith Nathan Tanner, Jr. Edward Stevenson and the Chicago Times, Kansas City Journal, Omaha Herald, and St. Louis Republican, among others. STATEMENTS, TESTIMONIES, LETTERS, AND REMINISCENCES BY: Hiram Page John...
Topics: mormonism, mormon history
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Nov 9, 2020 Dan Vogel
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Today when we think of Joseph Smith as a young man, we tend to picture him in a Palmyra, New York, setting. He also spent three years in Harmony, Pennsylvania. When he first arrived there, he boarded with Isaac Hale and worked for Josiah Stowell. Later, after he married Hale’s daughter Emma, he became a permanent resident and property owner. He also spent about six months across the border in South Bainbridge, New York, where Stowell lived, and in neighboring Colesville, where he was employed...
Topics: mormon history, mormonism
Folkscanomy Religion: Books on Faith, Spirituality and Worship
Nov 9, 2020 Dan Vogel
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In this collection of primary sources, editor Dan Vogel offers readers the pleasures and frustrations that greet professional historians. Raw and uncensored, all the documents upon which a history of Mormon origins could be based are here, with strengths and weaknesses inherent in any eyewitness account. They are colorful and detailed, opinionated and inconsistent. In tone they range from ultra-devotional to antagonistic. Yet each also contributes an important piece to the overall puzzle. Note...
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Nov 9, 2020 Dan Vogel
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Who else, besides Joseph Smith, saw the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated? Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses, said that he saw the holy record with his “spiritual eyes,” that the plates were otherwise kept concealed in a wooden box, wrapped in a cloth, and that nobody saw them. The Eight Witnesses, according to Harris, hesitated to sign a written testimonial for the same reason; they had not seen the plates with their natural eyes. Early Mormon Documents:...
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Oct 15, 2020 Dan Vogel
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As historians continue to sort through the beginnings of Mormonism, Dan Vogel’s comprehensive inventory of all relevant primary documents is an unparalleled achievement. In this first of a multi-volume series, Joseph Smith’s family–Emma, Katharine, Lucy, Joseph Sr., William, and others–recount how they became convinced of his high calling, feeling “the spirit of God like a burning fire shut up in [their] bones.” These narratives are carefully presented in their original forms with...
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Topic: Mormon History, LDS, Latter-day Saint
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Jun 22, 2020 H. Michael Marquardt
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A collection of patriarchal blessings given to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1833–1845 by Joseph Smith Sr., William Smith, Hyrum Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., Oliver Cowdery, and one by John Smith.
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The purpose of this volume is to provide researchers with some of the document sources used by those who compiled the Manuscript History (MSHiJS), as well as a few peripheral items, which are either unpublished or difficult to obtain. Included are notes of interviews, letters solicited by George A. Smith, journal entries by Brigham Young, George A. Smith, and Willard Richards, minutes of meetings, affidavits, and various other original documents from which the compilers drew. Excluded from this...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
This volume contains annotated transcriptions of the Rough Draft (RDft), Manuscripts #1-#9, begun by Willard Richards in Nauvoo in February 1845 and completed in Salt Lake City in October 1856 under George A. Smith’s direction. Included within these transcriptions are various addenda and notes, some of which are located in other collections. The second part contains annotated transcriptions of notes and drafts associated with the RDft. The third part contains notes, drafts, and memoranda...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
On 27 April 1838, shortly after his arrival at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, Joseph Smith, with counselor Sidney Rigdon and clerk George W. Robinson, began dictating what would become the official History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the end of 1840, Smith’s involvement with the project was more as an overseer and reviewer than an author. Of course, what was written was subject to Smith’s review and approval, and the compilers consulted him when information...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
On 27 April 1838, shortly after his arrival at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, Joseph Smith, with counselor Sidney Rigdon and clerk George W. Robinson, began dictating what would become the official History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the end of 1840, Smith’s involvement with the project was more as an overseer and reviewer than an author. Of course, what was written was subject to Smith’s review and approval, and the compilers consulted him when information...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
On 27 April 1838, shortly after his arrival at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, Joseph Smith, with counselor Sidney Rigdon and clerk George W. Robinson, began dictating what would become the official History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the end of 1840, Smith’s involvement with the project was more as an overseer and reviewer than an author. Of course, what was written was subject to Smith’s review and approval, and the compilers consulted him when information...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
On 27 April 1838, shortly after his arrival at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, Joseph Smith, with counselor Sidney Rigdon and clerk George W. Robinson, began dictating what would become the official History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the end of 1840, Smith’s involvement with the project was more as an overseer and reviewer than an author. Of course, what was written was subject to Smith’s review and approval, and the compilers consulted him when information...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
On 27 April 1838, shortly after his arrival at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, Joseph Smith, with counselor Sidney Rigdon and clerk George W. Robinson, began dictating what would become the official History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the end of 1840, Smith’s involvement with the project was more as an overseer and reviewer than an author. Of course, what was written was subject to Smith’s review and approval, and the compilers consulted him when information...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
On 27 April 1838, shortly after his arrival at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, Joseph Smith, with counselor Sidney Rigdon and clerk George W. Robinson, began dictating what would become the official History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the end of 1840, Smith’s involvement with the project was more as an overseer and reviewer than an author. Of course, what was written was subject to Smith’s review and approval, and the compilers consulted him when information...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
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Jun 19, 2020 Lisle G Brown, compiler
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Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings: A Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841–1846 (hereafter abbreviated as NSAA), identifies for the first time the names of all Latter-day Saints, arranged alphabetically, known to have received LDS temple ordinances in Nauvoo, Illinois.1 While some of this information is presently avail able to researchers, it may be accessed only by consulting a variety of documentary sources, from official LDS records to scattered...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith
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Jan 8, 2020 Richard S. Van Wagoner, Steven C. Walker
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Carefully researched and succinctly written,  A Book of Mormons  highlights seventy-eight historic figures. Photographs, little-known facts, and anecdotes vividly portray the public and private lives of prominent Mormon personalities. Included are all the presidents of the Church from Joseph Smith to Harold B. Lee, apostles and apostates, businessmen and educators, pioneers and politicians. The struggles and contributions of Mormon women are reflected in the lives of Lucy and Emma Smith,...
Topics: LDS, Latter-day Saint, Mormon, Joseph Smith, History, Brigham Young
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Oct 18, 2018 Judy Busk
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A Ford van is about the same length as a covered wagon and about a foot wider. On a journey taken by Judy Busk and her husband, Neal, to retrace the Oregon and Mormon trails, horsepower comes in the form of a combustion engine, a plastic cooler takes the place of wooden trunks, and the bedding consists of futons rather than feather ticks. With these conveniences in place, they seek a connection to the past in museums, archives, and at historical sites.  What most surprises Judy is what she...
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint, Pioneer, Utah
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Feb 9, 2018 Dan Vogel
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Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith. A summary of the elements in the literary and folkloric environment of the early nineteenth century that influenced the content of the Book of Mormon.
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Jan 10, 2018 Dan Vogel
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A Landmark in Historical Writing. In this important new contribution to the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dan Vogel introduces readers to groups and individuals who seem to have anticipated the kind of radically different religious and spiritual restoration Mormonism represented during the 1820s and 1830s. Indeed, the Mormon gospel attracted various religious primitivists, especially Seekers, who believe Joseph Smith's Church of Christ fulfilled nearly three...
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Dec 4, 2017 Brent Lee Metcalfe
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When the Book of Mormon first appeared for sale in early 1830, questions surfaced regarding its claim to be an ancient history of the Americas. New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology outlines the broad contours of contemporary scholarship which continue to examine issues of antiquity. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, contributors discuss historicity from the standpoint of physical and cultural anthropology, geography, linguistics, demographics, literary...
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Nov 10, 2017 Lavina Fielding Anderson
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Mormonism begins with Lucy Mack, mother of the prophet Joseph Smith. In her dictated memoir, readers detect the same seeds of religious fervor and frontier idiom that characterized her son's writings and sermons. Although much of her original voice was lost through editing in the more formal, first published edition of her memoir—14 percent of the overall content having been discarded—Lucy's original manuscript survives and is presented here for the first time in its entirety. For...
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Jun 5, 2017 Leonard John Nuttall
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In 1886 John Nuttall was famously on the polygamy “underground” with LDS President John Taylor. Late in the year, the president and his staff moved from one place of hiding in Centerville, a small town in northern Utah, to an even more rural location in nearby Kaysville where they occupied the farm house of Thomas and Margaret Rouche. The Rouches accommodated the church leadership by settling into an adjacent log cabin. It was under these circumstances that President Taylor met his last...
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May 19, 2017 Anthon H. Lund
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By the time Anthon Lund was born in Denmark in 1844, Søren Kierkegaard was already producing his ideas on existentialism and Hans Christian Andersen had just penned the tales that would make him world-famous. In this environment, Anthon—who was raised by his father and grandmother after his mother’s death—became a voracious reader by the age of six. Anthon H. LundLund converted to Mormonism, immigrated to the United States, and became an apostle and later counselor to the LDS church...
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May 18, 2017 Brigham Henry Roberts
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On a drab Monday in 1882, B. H. Roberts, then laboring on a mission in Tennessee, confided to his journal: “I am twenty-five years old today: perhaps one-half of my life has passed away—and what have I done? But little of anything, either of good or evil; my misdeeds are like my talents—on the small order. I have made attempts to accomplish something in various directions, but ‘miserable failure’ is written across the face of each of them.” Roberts then detailed the shortcomings in...
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May 17, 2017 James Henry Moyle
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James Henry Moyle was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, Commissioner of Customs under President Theodore Roosevelt, and special assistant to treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau. He was also president of the LDS Eastern States Mission. By his own count, he had two religions, Mormonism and the Democratic Party, and he alternately praised and criticized both. As one who was intimately acquainted with every major religious and political figure in Utah and...
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May 8, 2017 Reed Smoot
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No one was more surprised than Reed Smoot when he was called to the LDS apostleship at age thirty-eight. He had not held a previous church office of significance. Yet, as the son of one of Utah’s wealthiest men and the husband of a ranking church leader’s daughter, he was destined for prominence of some kind. His role would come to be that of an ambassador for the church in Washington, D.C., rather than a strictly spiritual counselor. When he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1902,...
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May 2, 2017 Rudger Clawson
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Rudger Clawson (1857-1943) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the third child of Hiram B. Clawson and his second polygamous wife, Margaret Gay Judd. Born just ten years after Mormons arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, Clawson’s eighty-six years spanned almost equal periods in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1879 Clawson became a folk hero when his missionary companion, Joseph Standing, was murdered at Varnell’s Station, Georgia. After returning to Salt Lake City, Clawson married his...
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Apr 21, 2017 John Henry Smith
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When John Henry Smith died on October 13, 1911, the Salt Lake Tribune described him as “prominent in all matters that concerned development of the West” and at “front rank in Utah affairs.” Second counselor to his cousin Joseph F. Smith in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, president of the Utah Constitutional Convention in 1895, co-founder of the Utah Republican Party, and an active participant in a dozen business enterprises, John Henry Smith had...
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Apr 17, 2017 Heber C. Kimball
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Although unlearned and barely literate, Heber Chase Kimball (1801-68) enjoyed a highly developed sense of history and of the importance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. To that end he dutifully kept a number of diaries. In some instances they are the best, and occasionally the only, contemporary account of the events they chronicle. While his penmanship, spelling, and grammar were distinctly minimal and idiosyncratic, Kimball possessed an exceptional memory. And he was, in...
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Apr 13, 2017 Joseph Smith Jr.
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In his personal diaries Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, emerges as a believable and human religious leader, willing to allow both descendants and followers a complete look at his innovative beliefs and complex personality. “I enjoyed myself by my own fireside with many friends around me,” he recalled of a quiet moment at home. “I drank a glass of beer at Moisser’s,” he dictated with equal frankness. An enthusiast for winter activities, Smith would often close his office whenever it...
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Mar 17, 2017 August Farnham
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Latter-Day Saint periodical published in Sydney, Australia.
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Mar 17, 2017 James Strang
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Newspaper that replaced the Voree Herald  in Voree, Wisconsin.
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Mar 17, 2017 John Taylor
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Latter-Day Saint periodical published in Hamburg, Germany.
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Mar 17, 2017 Charles B. Thompson
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Latter Day Saint periodical published in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Mar 17, 2017 George Q. Cannon
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Weekly newspaper published in San Francisco.
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Mar 17, 2017 James Strang
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Newspaper published in Voree, Wisconsin.
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Mar 17, 2017 Kirk Anderson
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Newspaper published in Salt Lake City, UT.
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Mar 17, 2017 W. W. Phelps
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Volume 3, published in Independence, Missouri on July 11, 1832.
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Mar 17, 2017 John Davis, Dan Jones, Daniel Daniels, Benjamin Evans, George Q. Cannon
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An official LDS periodical in Wales that replaced the Prophwyd y Jubili. 
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Mar 16, 2017 Don Carlos Smith, Joseph Smith, John Taylor, Willard Richards
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A Latter-Day Saint newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois.
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Mar 16, 2017 William Smith
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A weekly newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois.
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Mar 16, 2017 Orson Pratt
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Reprint of an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that was published from 1853 to 1854.
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Mar 16, 2017 Orson Pratt
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An official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that was published from 1853 to 1854.
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Mar 16, 2017 William Smith, George T. Leach, Samuel Brannan, A. E. Wright, Parley P. Pratt
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Weekly Latter-day Saint newspaper published in New York.
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Mar 16, 2017 John Taylor
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A weekly Mormon newspaper published in New York.
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Mar 15, 2017 William E. McLellin, George M. Hinkle
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1 volume, 12 issues.
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Mar 15, 2017 George J. Adams
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Newspaper in Boston that only published on issue.
Topics: James Strang, Latter Day Saint
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Mar 15, 2017 Erastus Snow
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Weekly newspaper.
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Danish : Books by Language
Mar 15, 2017 Erastus Snow
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Skandinaviens Stjerne  (Star of Scandinavia) was an LDS periodical published in  Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Mar 15, 2017 BYU students
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Independent student newspaper at Brigham Young University.
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Mar 15, 2017 Dan Jones
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Prophwyd y Jubili (Prophet of the Jubilee) was a Welsh periodical of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saint
Folkscanomy: Encyclopedias and Compendiums of Knowledge
Mar 15, 2017 Orson Pratt
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Annual almanac for years 1845 and 1846.
Topics: LDS, Latter-day Saint
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Mar 15, 2017 John E. Page
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LDS periodical "devoted to the investigation of various doctrines and beliefs: religious, moral, social, and political" and published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Mar 7, 2017 A. Cowles, H. Aldrich
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Church of Christ periodical from Kirtland, Ohio.
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Mar 7, 2017 Cooper and Chidester
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) newspaper for Beaver Island and vicinity.
Topic: Latter Day Saints
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Feb 3, 2017 Samuel Brannan, Parley P. Pratt
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A newspaper published in New York City by Samuel Brannan and edited by Parley P. Pratt.
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Feb 3, 2017
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Periodical from Voree, Wisconsin.
Topics: Mormon, Joseph Smith
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Feb 3, 2017 John Taylor
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A weekly newspaper edited and published by Latter Day Saint Apostle John Taylor in Nauvoo, Illinois, though not an official publication of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Topics: Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
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Feb 3, 2017 WILLIAM LAW, WILSON LAW, CHARLES IVINS, FRANCIS M. HIGBEE, CHAUNCEY L. HIGBEE, ROBERT D. FOSTER, CHARLES A. FOSTER
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A newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois, which can be said led to Joseph Smith’s death in that he demanded the printing press and newspaper office be destroyed after the paper’s inaugural issue, upon which Smith was arrested and subsequently assassinated in nearby Carthage Jail. Only a handful of copies of the original are known to exist. 
Topics: Mormon, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith
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Feb 3, 2017 WILLIAM LAW, WILSON LAW, CHARLES IVINS, FRANCIS M. HIGBEE, CHAUNCEY L. HIGBEE, ROBERT D. FOSTER, CHARLES A. FOSTER.
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This is a reprint of the newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois, which can be said led to Joseph Smith’s death in that he demanded the printing press and newspaper office be destroyed after the paper’s inaugural issue, upon which Smith was arrested and subsequently assassinated in nearby Carthage Jail. Only a handful of copies of the original are known to exist. 
Topics: Mormon, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith
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The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star  was the longest continuously published periodical of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was replaced by the Ensign .
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One volume with seven issues published from April–November, 1854.
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Feb 2, 2017 Ebenezer Robinson
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In 1844, Sidney Rigdon organized a group of Latter Day Saints in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This group began to publish a periodical in 1845 that revived the name, Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate .
Topics: Latter-day Saints, Church of Christ
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Feb 2, 2017 Isaac Sheen
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Initially named Aaronic Herald , the paper ended when Isaac Sheen fell out of communion with William B. Smith. Sheen was later editor of the True Latter Day Saints Herald .
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Feb 2, 2017
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"A sketch fo the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints"
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Feb 2, 2017 T.B.H. Stenhouse
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French periodical for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published in Switzerland.
Topics: Latter-day Saint, LDS, Mormon
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Jan 10, 2017 Oliver Cowdery
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The Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate a Latter Day Saint monthly newspaper published in Kirtland, Ohio, from October 1834 to September 1837. It was the successor to The Evening and Morning Star and the predecessor to the Elders' Journal .
Topics: Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
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Jan 10, 2017 George D. Watt
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The Journal of Discourses is a 26-volume collection of public sermons by early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first editions of the Journal were published in England by George D. Watt, the stenographer of Brigham Young. 
Topics: Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
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Jan 10, 2017 Benjamin Winchester
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The Gospel Reflector was the first independent Mormon periodical.
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Jan 10, 2017 John E. Page
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Replaced by People's Organ .
Topics: Latter-day Saints, LDS
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Jan 9, 2017 James Strang
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Strangite publication that replaced Zion's Reveille and was replaced by The Northern Islander when church headquarters relocated to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.
Topics: Latter Day Saints, LDS
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Dec 23, 2016 Orson Hyde
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Mormon periodical in Kanesville, Iowa.
Topic: Mormon
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Dec 23, 2016 William W. Phelps
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The Evening and the Morning Star  was an early Latter Day Saint newspaper published monthly in Independence, Missouri, from June 1832 to July 1833, and then in Kirtland, Ohio, from December 1833 to September 1834. Reprints of edited versions of the original issues were also published in Kirtland under the title  Evening and Morning Star .
Topics: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
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Dec 23, 2016 William W. Phelps
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The Evening and the Morning Star was an early Latter Day Saint newspaper published monthly in Independence, Missouri, from June 1832 to July 1833, and then in Kirtland, Ohio, from December 1833 to September 1834. Reprints of edited versions of the original issues were also published in Kirtland under the title Evening and Morning Star .
Topics: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
Miscellaneous Newspapers
Dec 23, 2016 John Taylor
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L'Étoile du Déséret was a monthly French language newspaper published in Paris, France by LDS Church apostle John Taylor.
Topics: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
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Dec 23, 2016 Moses R. Norris
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Mormon periodical from Kirtland, Ohio.
Topic: Mormon
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Dec 21, 2016 William E. McLellin
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Church of Christ periodical.
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Folkscanomy: Encyclopedias and Compendiums of Knowledge
Dec 21, 2016
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General almanac with LDS religious and cultural articles.
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Dec 21, 2016
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This is a re-composed copy of a broadsheet issued in 1842 by the Times and Seasons of Nauvoo, Illinois. The original document has ink showing through from one side to the other, making it difficult to read—witness the useful but barely legible photo reproduction distributed by Joseph Smith’s Rare Reprints of Independence, Missouri. It is also a rare document available only at the LDS Historical Department in Salt Lake City and the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Therefore, the current...
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Miscellaneous Contributed Journals and Academic Newsletters
Dec 21, 2016
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The Elders' Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints was an early Latter Day Saint periodical edited by Don Carlos Smith, younger brother of Joseph Smith. It was the successor to the Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate and was eventually replaced by the Times and Seasons.
Topics: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
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Dec 20, 2016 Daniel Tyler
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(The Protagonists of the Saints of the Last Days) German LDS Periodical
Topics: Mormon, LDS, Latter-day Saints
Miscellaneous Newspapers
Dec 19, 2016
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Newspaper from Saint James, Lake Michigan. Vols. 1, 8, 33
Topic: James Strang
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Dec 16, 2016 Joh Brindley, LLD
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A weekly periodical, edited by John Brindley, focussed on "Exposing the falsehoods and frauds, and replying to the blasphemous pretensions of Mormonism; refuting the infidel arguments and 'vain philosophy' of 'secularism;' and supplying sound and concise arguments in support of divine truth." Issues 1-22, published from June–November, 1857
Topics: Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormon
Miscellaneous Newspapers
Dec 13, 2016 WILLIAM LAW, WILSON LAW, CHARLES IVINS, FRANCIS M. HIGBEE, CHAUNCEY L. HIGBEE, ROBERT D. FOSTER, CHARLES A. FOSTER.
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This is a re-composed replica of the newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois, which can be said led to Joseph Smith’s death in that he demanded the printing press and newspaper office be destroyed after the paper’s inaugural issue, upon which Smith was arrested and subsequently assassinated in nearby Carthage Jail. In this reconstruction, care has been taken to duplicate the design and retain all of the original typographical idiosyncracies. Transcription by H. Michael Marquardt,...
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Topics: Mormon, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith